As The Wheel Turns: MacGuffin’s Red Herring
What do you do to fight writer's block? How do you move that stuck story forward? How do you squeeze an extra two thousand words into your finished story to make it long enough to call a novel? Sometimes you just have to take a Mulligan. Wait. No, wrong sport. Sometimes you just have to use a MacGuffin. Not necessarily a do-over as in golf, a MacGuffin can still be the savoir of the hurried author. It is a special type of plot device used to move the story along. What makes it special is that it does not matter what it is,…